I also understand how the Warriors” fans are fascinated by the team”s fascination with Durant.

But from the looks of it, Durant is not as fascinated by all this fascination as some people would like to believe.

And you know what? The Warriors should probably be glad about that. Because I am hardly convinced that acquiring Durant will produce the most glorious and fulfilling and slam-dunk awesome championship-glutted party that some people believe.

The details are no secret here. Durant met Thursday with the money people from the Oklahoma City Thunder, the basketball franchise for which he has worked the past nine seasons. His contract is up. Durant is a free agent. The Thunder wants him to re-sign and stay. Other teams want him to consider options. The Warriors are scheduled to meet with Durant and his people Friday on Long Island. Over the weekend, he is also supposed to meet with the Miami Heat, the Boston Celtics, The San Antonio Spurs, the Los Angeles Clippers and the Arctic Monkeys.

Okay, just kidding about the Monkeys. That”s a music act. But for all I know, Durant is meeting with them, too. He does not seem to be too discriminating. The point is, if Durant really were down to choosing between the Thunder and the Warriors, he would not be meeting with all those other teams — unless it”s to drive up his price, which it really can”t be, because whichever team that signs him is going to pay him a maximum contract, anyway. And the Thunder, under NBA rules I refuse to study like an encyclopedia but generally understand, can pay Durant even more to retain him.

Several reports Thursday, including one from the always-trustworthy Marc Spears, sh say that Oklahoma City will do exactly that–and Durant is most likely going to take that offer. So maybe he”s just taking tea with all those other teams just to feel the love and hear how great a player he is. (Because he is a great player.)

The Warriors will give it their best shot, though. Allegedly, their delegation will include players Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, seeking to convince Durant it would be really cool to have him in the Dubs” starting lineup and increase the team”s offensive firepower to beyond the Nth degree.

(The Nth Degree is also a music act, right? No, wait, that”s 98 Degrees. Whatever. Durant is probably meeting with all of them, too.)

The Warriors” pursuit of Durant has one drawback: It would require the team to send away a bunch of other pretty good players who make a lot of money, just to fit Durant”s paycheck under the salary cap. It”s quite possible that those names would include Harrison Barnes or Mo Speights Andrew Bogut or maybe even Andre Iguodala.

Seems to me the Warriors” front office has decided to exchange its “Strength In Numbers” slogan for a new one:”Strength In Dollars.” Top dollars, to be exact. The Dubs” personnel chart was going to change, no matter what. General manager Bob Myers has shown a talent for assembling good bench players. But with a Durant signing, instead of spreading around the money through the roster and creating depth, more of the dough will be concentrated on a few players. That happens with many NBA teams. But bigger salaries always buy you better players. Under any economic forecast or formula, with Durant making a max deal, the bottom six or seven players on the Warriors” roster would have to make less than they do now.

Durant might indeed make the Warriors a better team. But they”d be more vulnerable to catastrophic injury if it would involve a top player.

And there”s also the “candy dish” theory to ponder. An old coach once told me that he tried to avoid “too many rich pieces of candy” on his team. He was talking about “rich” in terms of flavor, not cash. But either way, it was easy to understand what he meant. There”s such a thing as too much flavor in the candy bowl. It can make you sick to your stomach if you”re not careful. I see this tendency more frequently in college basketball, where a school loads up on a great recruiting class full of supposed superstars, only to find they don”t mesh easily and can”t fulfill expectations. “Team chemistry” may be a cliche. But it”s a legitimate cliche.

By reputation, Durant”s personality and character is top notch. And we all know the team-first mindsets of Curry and Thompson. But there”s still just one basketball. Would Durant really be content to be the third option (behind Curry and Thompson) on many offensive sets?

It”s not as if the Warriors really had trouble scoring points or have a troubled offense in need of major repair. If they had decided to stop shooting 3-point attempts in the last four minutes of Game 7 and instead drive to the basket, they might well have won a second straight title. Going after a big man, especially if Bogut is gone, might be more sensible than pursuing Durant.

The last time any franchise attempted to create such a “Super Team” formula was in 2010 when the Miami Heat pursued and won both LeBron James and Chris Bosh to join up with Dwyane Wade and immediately win a NBA title. Except that didn”t happen. The Heat had an extremely up-and-down 2010-11 season with ulcer-inducing stretches before the team righted itself for the playoffs — and then lost in the NBA Finals to the Dallas Mavericks. To be sure, the Heat then won the next two league titles. But the whole thing had the feel of an artificially constructed championship building. There wasn”t the “joy” component that we”ve seen from the Warriors over the past two seasons.

James must have felt the same thing on some level. Because in 2014, he did a reverse spin move and went back to Cleveland, where he . . . well, we all know what he just did. And to my eye, he showed far more emotion and happiness about winning this 2016 NBA championship than he did over the two he won in Miami.

Oklahoma City is not Durant”s home town. But the Thunder is his ancestral franchise home. If Oklahoma City does sign free agent big man Al Horford (shouldn”t the Warriors also be inquiring about him?), Durant might skip the LeBron James chase-a-trophy-elsewhere step and go right to the win-a-title-with-my-original-team step.

Or Durant might well sign with the Warriors and we all get to witness another candy-dish experiment. Me? I wouldn”t risk that kind of snack bowl. No matter how fascinating that might be.